Keynote: Laura Waters, MD, FRCP
The long & the short of it: a brief overview of long-acting ART & improving long-term health
Laura Waters is a HIV & Sexual consultant and HIV lead at The Mortimer Market Centre, London. She is the National Specialty Advisor for HIV, chairing the group that advises NHS England on HIV treatment and the immediate past chair of the British HIV Association (BHIVA). She has led or co-authored several national guidelines. Laura is the Patient Involvement Officer for the Royal College of Physicians. She has published & presented widely, is a trustee for The Food Chain and previously for the Terrence Higgins Trust and. She teaches regularly at local, regional and national level, including on HIV courses for University College London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
ESI Presentation: Geargin Wilson, MD
Growing up in the Long-Acting ART era
Geargin is originally from Lexington, Massachusetts and went to medical school at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He completed his residency at Duke University and is one of the current clinician educator fellows at UCSF. In addition to his interests in clinical work with HIV and infectious diseases, his research interests include antimicrobial stewardship specifically as it pertains to urinary tract infections and complicated intraabdominal infections, the interface of spaced repetition learning and undergraduate medical education, and implementation sciences. Outside of work, he spends most of his time exploring the Bay area with his beagle rescue, Winston! Geargin will be joining the faculty in the UNC Division of Infectious Diseases next year.
PEPFAR Update
Updates on PEPFAR’s HIV Science Priorities
Mike Reid, MD,
Chief Science Officer, GHSD/PEPFAR
Mike currently serves as the Chief Science Officer for PEPFAR in the Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy in the US State Department. He also serves as Associate Director of the Center for Global Health Diplomacy, Delivery and Economics. He is an HIV clinician and sees patients at San Francisco General Hospital.
Ingrid Katz, MD, MHS,
Director for Behavioral Science for PEPFAR/GHSD
Dr. Ingrid Katz serves as the Director for Behavioral Sciences at the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), in the Bureau for Global Health Security and Diplomacy in the U.S. Department of State. She is also an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the former Associate Faculty Director at the Harvard Global Health Institute. Dr. Katz’s focus at PEPFAR is to accelerate and sustain country-driven solutions to closing gaps in care for people at risk for or living with HIV. She received her medical degree from the University of California- San Francisco, and MHS from Johs Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is Board-Certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. She remains a dedicated mentor, receiving the A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award, given to 8 of the nearly 12,000 faculty at Harvard Medical School and its affiliated hospitals annually for excellence in mentoring.